Capital must be seized by the horns

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(Leaflet distributed in Georgia, USA) · The Reasons for the Cuts · The root of the cuts, not only in Georgia, but in Wisconsin, the UK, Greece, Italy and around the world, is planted in the soil of the present economic crisis. The decrease in tax revenue facing national and local governments are being paid for by assaults on our living standards.

To Stop the Cuts We Have to Get Rid of Capitalism

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(Image - No Cuts No Capitalism) · It is difficult to overstate how serious the present situation is. £80 billion of state spending cuts are in the offing for the next four years, much of this via the slashing of local authority spending on public services by almost 30% each year. People who have never been on a demonstration before are being moved to protest as they experience the draconian cuts...

Revolts in the Arabic-Speaking World - A Capitalist World in Crisis

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The Victory of Mass Struggle over Military Force · From Tunisia through Egypt to Libya, Bahrain and Yemen the Arabic-speaking world is in turmoil. It is too early to say where these mass revolts will end but one thing is certain - a new epoch is opening. Let’s leave Libya aside since a large expatriate working class and tribal divisions of the bourgeoisie have produced a civil war rather than a...

Britain’s New Poor Law 2011

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In 1834 the British ruling class brought in the Poor Law Amendment Act. It was demanded by bourgeois ratepayers in the towns (newly given the vote in 1832). They wanted to put a stop to the system of payments to rural labourers to make up their wages which had led to a quadrupling of the Poor Law rates in twenty years.

Only the beginning of their offensive

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(UCU Strike Leaflet - We are publishing here a leaflet by the Manchester Class Struggle Forum in response to the strike of University and College Lecturers in the UK this week. Although we are not part of this group we support the working class viewpoint put forward in this leaflet in particular for the need for solidarity on the picket line between students and lecturers.

The Libyan Crisis: Imperialism Prepares New “Democratic” Bombs

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The world capitalist crisis is hitting the peripheral economies of the Middle East and those strategies linked to oil and gas production. It has moved masses of the dispossessed to action and unleashed competition between the various international imperialist line ups. France and Britain are already ready to intervene whilst the small Italian imperialism prepares to take on a major role in the...

From Hiroshima to Fukushima

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Meltdown · The earthquake and tsunami which struck Japan on 11 March at 8.9 on the Richter scale was one of the worst ever recorded. The tragedy of the tens of thousands of dead and the hundreds of thousands made homeless is almost mind-numbing. But even before the next aftershock strikes the country other questions are being posed.

Georgia: Something is Rotten in the Peach State

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We have finally seen some well appreciated warmth here in Georgia. After a biting winter that felt more like an epoch than a season, people can now go outside without having to wear thick coats and layers of socks. As a dialectical materialist, I want to say this is due to a natural change in seasons.

An update on events in Wisconsin

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In an 18-1 vote on the evening of March 9th, the Wisconsin State Senate passed a bill eliminating collective bargaining rights for state sector workers. This was done without the required quorum numbers because the bill ending collective bargaining rights was removed from the larger austerity budget bill. Both bills are now set to pass.

Reflections on the Irish Election

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With the democratic formality now out of the way, Fine Gael and the Labour Party have formed a coalition government. This has come to pass through a dramatic re-ordering of the parliamentary system. Fianna Fail, the natural party of capital in Ireland since the 1930s, having governed for three out of every four years in that intervening period, has experienced a political collapse mirroring that...

March 8, International Day for Working Class Women

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In this society celebrations have lost their real value, their commemorative value. Instead they disguise their main aim which is to promote the circulation and consumption of commodities. International Women’s Day is the nth tragic example of this. · In New York at the end of March 1911 146 female workers (many were Italian immigrants) in the textile factory of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company...

Libya: A Preliminary Statement

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It is too early to take a definitive position on the Libyan events because the situation is still fluid and we cannot be definite about anything. The Colonel’s days seem to be numbered but he is continuing with his strenuous defence despite the fact that the international capitalist community is putting into play all its juridical (International Criminal Court) and economic weapons including an...

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